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Of or pertaining to the Incas.

A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant. Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. I. Taylor. Incandescent lamp or light (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of cond…

Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.

Hoary with white pubescence.

ng enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment. "Mysterious ceremony and incantation." Burke.

Dealing by enchantment; magical. Sir T. Browne.

Enchanting. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.

Zinc chloride. [Obs.]

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief. [Written also cantraip.] [Scot.]

A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.

a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle.

or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. My high charms work. Shak.

An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

oking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment. Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event. Hallam.

Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.

duced by a current of electricity which in passing through a resisting medium heats it to incandescence or burns it. See under Carbon. -- Electric, or Electrical, machine, an apparatus for generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by friction. -- Electric motor. See Electro-motor,